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 Hans D 
 
10 January 2026
 
 
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As a self publishing author I have gone through the route of editing, formatting and designing my own books. This time I tried Booklocker and was pleasantly surprised how easy they made the whole process guiding me from start to finish, and the finished product is outstanding. I have several manuscripts with the first chapter completed and will definitely be going back to them for the total package. Thanks guys!
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Paul V 
 
16 December 2025
 
 
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Book Locker has been a pleasure to work with. A great team of people.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 James M 
 
9 December 2025
 
 
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I recently published a revised edition of my novel, Nina and The Jets, and the experience with Booklocker has been nothing short of phenomenal. Angela and her team were extremely helpful and accommodating throughout the whole process. They have been transparent and upfront about all aspects of the publishing process which made everything go smoothly. I thought they wouldn’t understand when I mentioned I don’t do social media and am trying to sell my book old school by hitting the streets, but Angela was very supportive and offered some excellent advice. I could go on about them, but I’m a person of few words, outside of a novel of course, and just want to thank Angela and her team for all their hard work.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Wendy H 
 
6 December 2025
 
 
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If you're looking for someone to help you through the publishing process and get your book out on the market quickly and efficiently, I'd urge you to contact Angela Hoy at BookLocker. Not only is Angela a much-needed 'watch-dog' in the industry, keeping a keen eye on, and reporting on, the practices of less savory self-publishing companies via her WritersWeekly newsletter for writers. She also has spent decades building her own reputable publishing company and helping authors get their work out in the hands of eager readers. Scroll through BookLocker's impressive list of published books. Read the testimonials from authors. Read about their publishing process. Then, email Angela with any questions you may have. She will get right back to you. BookLocker, by the way, is a family-run business: an honest and thriving business, run by a close-knit, engaging, and responsible family that, hopefully, will be around for generations to come. So, if you're searching for publication, reach out. Ask all your questions. There is no charge, and you will not be hounded relentlessly to follow through. BookLocker respects its authors--and, in my book, that's huge!
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Jim L 
 
1 December 2025
 
 
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BookLocker has published two of my books; Brotherhood of Doom: Memoirs of a Navy Nuclear Weaponsman and Sweet& Sour Uncle. I am working on a third book. My books would never have been published without BookLocker. Angela and the group have been so gracious and helpful bringing to life my efforts to write, they have become "family". I searched for a long while for a publisher and I feel truly blessed to have found someone who not only helped me publish but has guided me and countless others through the maze of bring books into being. As an author I cannot find the words strong enough to praise and thank BookLocker for the wonderful help they have given me. BookLocker is absolutely awesome.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Wayne T 
 
7 November 2025
 
 
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I'm very pleased to have an opportunity to write a review of my experience with Booklocker. I spent many months searching for a publisher to publish my book. I spoke with many but the one that was at the forefront was this incredible team at Booklocker. I had been burned in the past by a publisher and had a hard time trusting the many many that i spent months qualifying for my project. following many disappointments, I just had an unsettled gut feeling and realized finding and honest true publisher was not going to be easy. I received an email follow up from one of my inquires, It was Angela from Booklocker following our discussion, Angela was the one! she was very knowledgeable, professional, and upfront. I finally found the one i believed was the right fit for me. I will close with this, After working with Angela and the entire Booklocker team, I Know now that i selected the best of the best. In your journey, be aware of what i learned the hard way. There are many fake scammer people that claim to be legit publishers and are very good sales people and will convince you they are the one for you but are only scamming you. With that! Be careful and i hope you come across this well deserved review.. I'm looking forward to begin my next edition starting from scratch with Booklocker. Author of the book "Wayne"
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Doug P 
 
2 October 2025
 
 
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I have partnered with Booklocker on 3 books, a novel (American Season), a collection of short stories (A Thanksgiving Bear) and a non-fiction book on catering (Catering Complete). I have found their technical wizardry and friendly, efficient service to be first class. There is an almost immediate turnaround with all communications, and a very clear and easy-to-understand methods for completing the different phases to see a book in print or to eBook. If you are looking for a Print-On-Demand service for your work, I can't recommend Booklocker any higher.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Peter K 
 
23 August 2025
 
 
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After exploring numerous publishing options — many of which turned out to be misleading or outright scams — I finally discovered Booklocker.com, and it was like striking gold. From start to finish, their team was professional, transparent, and incredibly thorough. They walked me through every step of the process, ensuring my book made it to market without a hitch. What stood out most was their honesty. Unlike others who misrepresented their locations and services, Booklocker laid everything out clearly and delivered exactly what they promised. Thanks to their support, my book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and several other platforms I hadn’t even considered. I wholeheartedly recommend them to any author looking for a trustworthy publishing partner.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

READ MORE UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS from BookLocker's Authors!

DETAILS ABOUT OUR SERVICES:

1. ORIGINAL COVER DESIGN: See samples from BookLocker's cover designer here. (Click on each cover at that link to see the entire cover - front, back and spine). We do NOT use cover templates. Every cover is unique!
2. PROOFREADING: The first 25,000 words are included in The Works Package! Additional words are $0.025/each.We will connect you with Clayton Jones, an English Professor at the University of Tennessee. He is EXCELLENT! Proofreading includes correcting the spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors in your manuscript. If you are happy with Clayton’s edit of your first 25,000 words, he will send you a quote to edit the rest of your manuscript. If you need a more comprehensive edit, Clayton will be happy to provide you with a free quote after he reviews your manuscript.
3. CATEGORY AND KEYWORD ANALYSIS (Powered by BoostABook): Categories and keywords are what retailers like Amazon use to help buyers find books. Using the wrong categories and keywords when listing/promoting your book can stop a great book from selling many, or even any, copies. Using live shopping data from Amazon.com, as well as other sources, BoostABook will: research all the options; identify the best categories and keywords to fit your book; deliver a report for your approval, and then work directly with BookLocker to get those set up for you in the online listings.
4. HARDCOVER COMBO: This is included in The Works Package! This means that, in addition to the paperback, we will also publish a hardcover edition of your book. For our other packages, if you choose the hardcover combo when signing up to publish your paperback, you'll pay only $499-$699, depending on the package you chose. If you wait until later, the cost will be $867. Processing both the paperback and the hardcover simultaneously saves us and our authors a ton of time. That’s why we can offer this discount.
5. BASIC EPUB (EBOOK) FORMATTING AND DISTRIBUTION: Most epub conversions are basic, have two or fewer graphics, and already include an automated table of contents, which we will handle on our end. Books with more complex formatting like extra graphics, tables, etc. may require an extra fee. You can request a quote at any time. As an example, extra photos are $3.00 each and tables are $10.00 each. Ebook publication is, of course, optional.
6. INTERIOR AND COVER VERIFICATION: For Do It Yourself (D.I.Y.) authors, who are submitting print-ready pdf files for their interior and cover, we will check your first set of files for free, and will send you a list of any formatting/design errors we notice. If you then submit another file with errors, a $45 spec-check fee will need to be paid for us to process each additional file.
7. ANNUAL FILE HOSTING FEE: The first year annual fee ($18) is included in all of our print publishing programs. This fee keeps your book in BookLocker's, the printer's, and Ingram's system. Ingram is the largest book distributor. Other firms charge upwards of $75 per year or more for this exact same service. There are no hosting fees for ebooks.
8. ELECTRONIC GALLEY + PRINT GALLEY: You will receive your final interior file (PDF) for approval. You will also receive the first printed and bound copy of your book (the print galley) to approve.
9. COPIES OF YOUR PRODUCTION FILES: Production files are the print-ready PDF files the printer uses to print your cover and your interior. Most of our competitors either charge authors hundreds of dollars extra for those, or refuse to give them to authors at all. Worse, those publishers claim to own all rights to those production files. This prevents those authors from moving to another publisher or printer in the future. Pretty nasty, huh? All BookLocker authors are the owners of their production files and you can request those at any time after they are finalized and uploaded to the printer. DISCLAIMER: If you contact us more than 10 days after terminating your contract to request copies, we will need to charge a $35 fee to pull those files from our archives.

Package Details

THE WORKS! – Includes the exact same services provided by our Professional Author Package (details are below), PLUS the hardcover edition add-on, a Publisher Directed Book Trailer, and proofreading the first 25,000 words. If you are happy with the edits to your first 25,000 words, you can request a quote for the rest of the manuscript to be proofread. Total savings vs. the À La Carte options is $1,243!

PROFESSIONAL AUTHOR PACKAGE - The exact same services provided by our At-Your-Service Package (details are below) PLUS our most popular add-on items (copyright registration, Library of Congress Control Number, and BoostABook’s category and keyword analysis). Total savings vs. the À La Carte options is $719!

AT-YOUR-SERVICE – This is our classic program and it's a simple and quick process. Just send us your manuscript as a word processing file (MSWord preferred) and we'll get right to work. We will send the formatted file to you for any final changes or edits. This program includes original cover design (you will work directly with our designer to ensure your cover is exactly what YOU requested) but you can submit your own cover if you want. It also includes Basic epub (ebook) services, and full distribution.  Total savings vs. the À La Carte options is $92!

D.I.Y. / À LA CARTE – These options are available to authors who do not need the more extensive packages above. The author will provide us with professional, ready-to-print interior and cover PDF files. They must be formatted to our specs, which are provided in Step 4 of the publishing process, though you can request that link before you sign up. All authors must receive and approve a print galley (the first printed, bound copy of their book) before that title can be put on the market. Unlike the "other guys," a real human being at BookLocker reviews all D.I.Y. files to ensure they meet the printer's requirements. The "other guys" make you wait for you to receive your print galley to discover you made mistakes. They then charge you more money later to "fix" the problems (that they already knew about!), wasting your time, and costing you more money. You would then need to buy ANOTHER print galley to review for any additional errors, etc., etc. If a D.I.Y. author submits files to us with errors, we will send that author a list of those errors at no additional charge. If a D.I.Y. author's second set of files also contain errors, the author agrees to pay an additional $45 for BookLocker to check/process new files, and to send a new list of formatting/design errors. D.I.Y. authors can upgrade to our full-service program at any time.

NEED COLOR-INTERIOR PUBLISHING? There are extra formatting fees if $7.50 per page and $8.50 per image. Other than that, the prices are the same as listed in the chart above for each program. We will send you a quote for the extra formatting fees once you upload your file for formatting. You should also be aware that color-interior books cost more to print than black and white interior books. Thus, the minimum list prices are significantly higher. Whenever possible, we recommend authors publish a black and white interior book instead of color. All covers are in color, of course.

The Fine Print

All authors are provided with a free copy of 90+ DAYS OF PROMOTING YOUR BOOK ONLINE: Your Book's Daily Marketing Plan plus a free copy of 50 Do's and Don'ts of Book Seller. We are also happy to provide free advice, and to answer any marketing questions you may have. The marketing products and services offered by "the other guys" usually cost far more than any resulting book sales. We don't do business that way. We know how to promote books and we teach authors how to do so through the books above, and through one-on-one correspondence with each author who seeks promotional/marketing advice. We LOVE batting around creative ideas, targeted to each individual book, with authors who want to increase their sales!

If you really want someone else to do the promotion for you, our recommend book publicists are here:

https://marketplace.writersweekly.com/publicists

ATTN: D.I.Y. - DO-IT-YOURSELF AUTHORS: If you sign up for the D.I.Y. package, but can't provide the files to our specs, you will need to either hire someone to do the work for you, or you will need to pay our designers for assistance. That means upgrading to one of our full-service publishing packages. If you are not adept at MSWord and design programs, please do not sign up for the D.I.Y. program.

Cancellations prior to work being performed on your book: We understand that authors occasionally need to cancel their BookLocker.com contract for a variety of reasons. If you request a refund after payment is made, but before any file transmissions or formatting work is completed on your book, that is fine. However, BookLocker.com will retain a 25% cancellation fee to cover labor and transaction costs associated with processing the new sign-up and, later, the cancellation. When you pay your fee to us, you are agreeing that you understand a 25% cancellation fee will apply to all fees that were paid. However, if any file transmissions have occurred, or work has begun on your book or cover art, no refunds are permitted. This policy applies to all payments made during sign-up. Refunds are not permitted on D.I.Y. projects.

Read our full contract here.

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